Senior Platform Engineer, Storage

dbt Labs dbt Labs · Data AI · Ireland · Remote · Engineering

Senior Platform Engineer specializing in Storage Services to build a seamless, reliable platform for dbt Cloud across AWS, Azure, and GCP. The role focuses on automation, self-service, and improving developer velocity through better tooling, processes, and infrastructure design, specifically refining and scaling storage platform components.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, operate, and scale storage based infrastructure systems across multiple tenancy models (single vs. multi-tenant) and public clouds (AWS, Azure, and GCP).
  2. Deepen our team’s expertise in one more areas including: relational databases, search, caching, queuing, and streaming - helping strengthen platform scalability, security, and developer experience.
  3. Partner with Architecture, Release Engineering, Network, Compute, and Security teams to provide a seamless platform for application teams.
  4. Leverage tools and languages such as Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD, Python, SQL, Go, Bash, and Datadog.
  5. Participate in a balanced on-call rotation in an environment that values continuous improvement, helping to improve reliability and reduce operational toil.

Skills

Required

  • Significant experience designing and operating relational data and object storage platforms in production.
  • Hands-on experience with one or more cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and declarative Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
  • Programming/scripting ability in Python, Go, Rust or Bash.
  • Excellent communication skills and experience working asynchronously on a fully remote, distributed team.

Nice to have

  • Experience building or running multi-tenant storage platforms at scale.
  • Deep expertise in two or more of the following: PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ.
  • Experience operating infrastructure across multiple clouds.

What the JD emphasized

  • multi-cloud dbt Cloud
  • storage platform
  • multi-tenant storage platforms
  • multiple clouds